Shakesville. Yes.

If you're not familiar with Shakesville, I encourage you to get familiar with her.  A great place to start is this open letter she just wrote to Jimmy Fallon.

http://www.shakesville.com/2014/02/i-write-letters.html

An online game like no other

If you've never taken a trigger warning seriously before in your life, please heed this one.

There is a new online game, The Day the Laughter Stopped, that I highly recommend.  But it comes with a serious trigger warning. One of my favorite sites, The Mary Sue, writes about it here and includes a link to the game. I recommend reading the beginning of the article, and then playing. The game is more effective without the information in the article, but still a profound experience with it.

Do play it if you can.  But many people will not be able to. Practice self-care, and be honest with yourself if you can't handle it, whether that's today or ever.

Re-boot

So, I've been re-booting a lot of my blogs, and I wasn't sure I would re-boot this one. But, as I've been doing a lot of work with sexual violence, I decided I'd go ahead and use this space to talk about that.

So, the big 3 (sex education, sex workers' rights, and polyamory) have become the big 4, with the added focus of consent.  However, you could view it as the original big 3 simply being subsets of 1 primary issue of consent.